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Yes You Can! Encourage Technology Innovation By Building A Community Of Support, Melissa Diers, Teresa Hartman
Yes You Can! Encourage Technology Innovation By Building A Community Of Support, Melissa Diers, Teresa Hartman
Posters and Presentations: Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library
Health Science education faculty are redesigning curricula to meet the learning needs of current and future students. During this process, faculty adjust their teaching strategies, and work to increase their own educational technology skills. The evolving demands of a health care educator underscores the need to nurture their technology skills development. The method UNMC chose to use was to develop an interprofessional community of support that is designed to strengthen an innovative culture, foster informal peer review and peer mentoring, encourage scholarship opportunities, and to offer collaborations with educators who share an interest in using technology in education. The community …
Student Builders Of Online Curriculum Content. What Are Their Perceptions And Motivations?, Peggy Moore, Teresa Hartman, Sarah B. Mcbrien, Betsy J. Becker, Daniel Cloonan
Student Builders Of Online Curriculum Content. What Are Their Perceptions And Motivations?, Peggy Moore, Teresa Hartman, Sarah B. Mcbrien, Betsy J. Becker, Daniel Cloonan
Posters and Presentations: Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library
Objective/Purpose: 1. Describe the benefits and challenges of establishing a campus-wide student-centered program to create online curricular content. 2. Gain insight about student perceptions and motivations for becoming curriculum content developers. Need for Innovation: Faculty receive constant encouragement to discover methods for transforming health science instructional materials using active learning. Faculty identify "lack of time" as the most significant barrier to developing blended and online materials. In 2014, our academic medical center issued a student-centered call for proposals to create online materials for the Interactive E-Learning Program as a means to include students in the curricular change process. By pairing …